Josiah Webbe News Today

‘Organic intellectuals’ in what used to be Tipu Sultan's island capital chip away at sources and material remains, to uncover perspectives and ideas to kindle conversations in the little island.

By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Last week, in my article about the book ‘The Colonial Landmarks of Mysuru’  by Gauri Satya, my historian friend, I had made a reference to a most imposing but almost unknown monument built by Dewan Poornaiah to honour his patron Josiah Webbe of the Madras Council, at the spot very close to Srirangapatna, where a mutiny by British soldiers was crushed by the forces loyal to the Crown.  There is another very intriguing structure that once stood in Srirangapatna t...